Albert said last week she’s looking forward to helping her students transition smoothly into their new environment at the new school building. She said she hopes “to get to know them, build good routines, (and) develop relationships with them and their families” over the coming weeks.
She added that she won’t feel like such a “newbie” at Candlewood, though, because everyone — staff and students — will be new to the school, which was just built.
Candlewood Lake Elementary School, at 100 Candlewood Road, is incorporating students from the now closed Center Elementary School and Huckleberry Hill Elementary School as well as the fifth-graders from Whisconier Middle School.
About 1,100 students total will attend the new 135,000-square-foot school.
The two-level school, which cost $78 million to…